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Re: School productions.
« Reply #15 on: Apr 06, 2007, 01:15 am »
Well the project is OVER! In the end everything ran smoothly, although the price of paper probably went up quite a bit. I managed to restrict access to back stage so that there was one point of entry.

I notified the parents that they must notify me if their child will be picked up by anyone except them (ie friends parent or a relative), and each chaperone had a list of who the parents of each child were and who was allowed to pick them up.

There were no feinters (I asked that the students be taken to the toilet 10 minutes before they needed to get ready, then given a glass of water to drink), so that was a bonus, and I had minimal overlap between acts - and no stalling.

For access control, I did laminated wrist straps in a number of colours, to denote which area the wearer was allowed, which contained their name and job. Blue, for example, was a chaperone, red was for the teachers who acted as runners, green was "student preparation" etc.

Each class got 15 minutes outside after their performance, and 10 minutes outside during the longer gap between their performances. We put some snacks etc out there too.

All the runners were on 2-way radios, and I had at least one runner positioned at each point of interest (1 outside, 1 in the dressing room, 1 in the students area of the auditorium and 3 'floating')

I was on cans and 2-way radio throughout the night - thankyou techpro for your "2 way interface" - it works beautifully - so my need to know everything was pretty much satisfied.

I am glad it is over, but it was a good experiance.


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Re: School productions.
« Reply #16 on: Apr 07, 2007, 02:58 pm »
Always good to hear that things went smoothly!

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Re: School productions.
« Reply #17 on: Apr 15, 2007, 01:12 am »
congrats. sounds like it went extremely well...watch out they'll be wanting you back - the reward for a job well done...
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Re: School productions.
« Reply #18 on: Apr 16, 2007, 10:51 am »
Do you think my dancers would be offended if I wanted to "tag" them with plastic bracelets noting where they're allowed to be? (jk!)  ;D   ;D

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Re: School productions.
« Reply #19 on: Apr 18, 2007, 07:45 am »
Hey -- it might be easier to stop them from going to places they shouldn't be....like crossing between the cyc and the bounce.... =)
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Re: School productions.
« Reply #20 on: Apr 18, 2007, 10:30 pm »
JUST what I was thinking... Have you had those shows where it looks as if Godzilla is attacking Cinderella's Ball?  ;)

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Re: School productions.
« Reply #21 on: Apr 18, 2007, 10:39 pm »
I kind of like the WAVE when someone crosses really quickly.   ???
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Re: School productions.
« Reply #22 on: Jan 17, 2008, 08:01 pm »
Hey -- it might be easier to stop them from going to places they shouldn't be....like crossing between the cyc and the bounce.... =)

I call this "Spy Vs. Spy" cause it reminds me of those cartoons with the silhouette.

 

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